Aberfan
21 October 1966, a date that will remain in hundreds of people's memories for the rest of their lives, for this day held a horrific disaster, an event so tragic it killed many and injured even more, the disaster of Aberfan. A very moving documentary was produced on this incident reliving the memories and digging up specific details by the victims who so luckily survived.
'The tragedy' a poem written by Brian Patten, holds an air of suspense throughout the piece of text as you never fully realise or find out what the poem is really trying to inform you of, the narrator has found a piece of paper with a pencil written note etched onto it, whoever has written this mysterious letter is leaving and never coming back. The tragedy is how the narrator does not care about who has written the letter. These two pieces of stimulus are so different in many ways, for one thing one event actually happened and another is just an invented piece of text, however they are both linked with one word, 'tragedy'.
It first destroyed a farm cottage in its path, killing all the occupants. At Pantglas Junior School, just below, the children had just returned to their classes after singing All Things Bright and Beautiful at their assembly. It was sunny on the mountain but foggy in the village, with visibility about 50 yards. The tipping gang up the mountain had seen the slide start, but could not raise the alarm because their telephone cable had been repeatedly stolen. (The Tribunal of Inquiry later established that the disaster happened so quickly that a telephone warning would not have saved lives.) Down in the village, nobody saw anything, but
